05-20-2024, 02:29 PM
(05-20-2024, 02:21 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Guys, we love Luka because we're Mavs fans and watch him every night.
But, imagine being a fan of another team and having to watch him alternate between busting your team's ass and whining like a little kid when things don't go his way.
Then, imagine being a general NBA fan watching him alternate between busting the other deep playoff team's ass and whining like a little kid when things don't go his way.
Both of the latter two groups probably HATE him and hate watching him. If it seems like the announcers (who I think are just as bad as you all do, only for different reasons) are against him, I'm sure they either feel the same way (annoyed) or are attempting to cater to the anti-Luka audience, which I'd assume is the much larger portion of viewers.
The good news is that he has another series to show everyone why we all fell in love with him. But, he's never, ever going to win over the national audience (or win the MVP, for that matter) until he gives up a lot of that complaining. I don't care if you're in the camp of "he's immature" or "that's just the European soccer culture" or whatever - America hates it. We've talked about it so much around here, and we're all pretty desensitized to it and able to look past it because we love the dude, but the national audience will not. I don't know what you expect.
I agree. In fact, I sat beside OKC fans at Boomer Jacks for game 6, made friends with them, and then had to listen to them after they lost, with a little alcohol in them, saying "at least our superstar isn't a baby who complains constantly!"
Not very astute ^^^^